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Ethnography
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A. Concept and ancient originsThe term E., from the Greek
éthnos ('people', 'nation') and
gráphein ('to write'), denotes the description of ethnic groups or cultures. The neologism (
Ethnographie in German) is traced back to the Göttingen scholars Johann Christoph Gatterer (Prof. Ord. in history at Göttingen University) and August Ludwig Schlözer. Schlözer made the first use of the word in 1772, before Gatterer in 1775 declared E., in the sense of
Völkerkunde (the 'study of peoples'), to be one of the four constituent elements of geography. In 1783, the Slovak hi…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
Date:
2016-11-24
